Eagle Bend, Mississippi, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Eagle Bend, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Eagle Bend lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Eagle Bend — the short answer
Eagle Bend, Mississippi: USDA zone 8b, about 286 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 15
- Warren County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 28
- Warren County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~286
- Warren County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 1K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. No 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid, so the hard-freeze dates are Warren County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Eagle Bend's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Eagle Bend's 286-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Eagle Bend
Each reading below is measured for Eagle Bend itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsEagle Bend runs about 286 days between hard freezes (read from Warren County, the closest normal to Eagle Bend) — close to year-round growing.
Frost is rarely the limit here; winter plantings are as real as summer ones, and the harder question is which crops shrug off the summer heat.
Grow cool-season crops through the mild winter, and choose heat-tolerant varieties for the summer beds.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredEagle Bend sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country Eagle Bend is in
Eagle Bend sits in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Eagle Bend's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Warren County is mostly Mississippi Valley Loess Plains. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Eagle Bend
Every plant below cleared Eagle Bend's own zone 8b and its 286-day season. Each card opens that plant's Mississippi profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Eagle Bend?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 18; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 15 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 28 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the calendar nearly circles: cool-season crops take the winter shift, and the next window is always close.
What's on the federal record near Eagle Bend
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Eagle Bend. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Eagle JunctionUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- 149A0003 WARRENNitrate · 2.0 mi
- 149A0002 WARRENNitrate · 2.8 mi
- Tara IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.0 mi
- Eagle Shore GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.4 mi
- Shell Beach StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
- AFTON RAIL CARBrownfields · 6.4 mi
- Ma-44Nitrate · 6.5 mi
- Ma-99Nitrate · 6.6 mi
- Ma-50Nitrate · 6.6 mi
- Ma-98Nitrate · 6.6 mi
- NORTHROP GRUMMAN SHIP SYSTEMS INC - AVONDALE - TALLULAH OPERATIONSBrownfields · 7.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Eagle Bend's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Eagle Bend.
Total Sites
29
within ~10 miles of Eagle Bend
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Eagle Bend
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Eagle Bend
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Eagle Bend, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 18 sites within ~10 miles of Eagle Bend. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Eagle Bend
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Eagle Bend
Everything above resolves to Eagle Bend as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 1K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Warren County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at town scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Eagle Bend Average
Eagle Bend Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Eagle Bend
- ●One soil character for all of Eagle Bend
- ●Frost dates read at Eagle Bend's scale: Feb 15 to Nov 28
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Eagle Bend's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Eagle Bend
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Eagle Bend, Mississippi — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Eagle Bend averages can't show:
We read public map data around Eagle Bend — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Eagle Bend average
How we know this about Eagle Bend
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this town’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Warren County’s record, because none resolves here; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at town grain anywhere on this page — there is no town-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Eagle Bend
When does frost risk typically end in Eagle Bend?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Eagle Bend typically lands around Feb 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about Mar 8.
When is the first frost in Eagle Bend?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Eagle Bend typically arrives around Nov 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 14, so the watching starts about Oct 29 — about 286 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Eagle Bend?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Eagle Bend sees about 286 frost-free days — roughly Feb 15 through Nov 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 8 to Nov 14, about 251 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Eagle Bend?
The federal record around Eagle Bend is light — 29 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Nitrate entries (18), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Eagle Bend?
From about Oct 29 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Nov 28 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Nov 28. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Eagle Bend's scale — its 8b band and its 286-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Eagle Bend's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Eagle Bend’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Eagle Bend's own scale — the 1,069 acres it covers and 29 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Eagle Bend's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 29 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Eagle Bend, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Eagle Bend's boundary and the 1,069 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~286-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Eagle Bend sits in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Eagle Bend has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Warren County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Eagle Bend's 1,069 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Warren County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Warren County
- The growing challenges every Mississippi grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Mississippi
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Warren County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Eagle Bend's 1,069 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Eagle Bend you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,069 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Eagle Bend-wide figureread your own land →
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